The Stories of English
The Stories of English
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The Stories of English by David Crystal
The Stories of English is a groundbreaking history of the language by David Crystal, the world-renowned writer and commentator on English. Other books have been written on the subject, but they focused on the educated, printed language called standard English. Crystal turns the history of the language on its head and provides a startlingly original view of where the richness, creativity, and diversity of the language truly lies--in the accents and dialects of nonstandard English users all over the globe. Interwoven within this central chronological story are accounts of uses of dialect around the world as well as in literary classics from The Canterbury Tales to The Lord of the Rings. For the first time, regional speech and writing is placed center stage. This significant shift in perspective enables the reader to understand the importance of everyday, previously marginalized, voices in our language, and provides an argument for the way English should be taught in the future.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781585676019 |
| ISBN 10 | 1585676012 |
| Title | The Stories of English |
| Author | David Crystal |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Overlook Books |
| Year published | 2004-09-09 |
| Number of pages | 608 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |